Archived from the original (mp3) on 8 December 2007. ^ a b Huell Howser Sue Satriano (1988).Archived from the original on 17 March 2016. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. "Millennium Hollywood: Lou Naidorf" (Video upload). ^ MillenniumHollywood (23 October 2012).^ "World's First Circular Building Readied Here".Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. "Critic's Notebook: Hollywood landmark at a crossroads". ^ Capitol Records Building at Glass Steel and Stone (archived).Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. This coincided with Capitol Music Group becoming part of Universal Music Group, assuring its new parent company two Los Angeles headquarters. In November 2012, Steve Barnett was announced as the new Chairman and CEO of the Capitol Music Group and the company stated his office would be in the building. The studio claimed that noise from construction of a condominium threatened it, as well as an underground parking lot by building firm Second Street Ventures would have heavy equipment working within 18 feet (5.5 m) of its renowned underground echo chambers, which are themselves over 20 feet (6.1 m) below ground level. In September 2006, EMI sold the tower and adjacent properties for US$50 million to New York developer Argent Ventures. In 2012, Studio A received a new AMS Neve 88R mixing console, designed and built for Al Schmitt and Paul McCartney. The first album recorded in the tower was Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color. Frank Sinatra had a close association with the studios, and the Georg Neumann U 47 microphone he carried around with him is there, often used and maintained for studio sessions. The building houses the Capitol Studios, a recording facility which includes eight echo chambers engineered by guitarist Les Paul and three main studios, A, B, and C. Restored in hand-glazed ceramic tile, the mural spans 26 by 88 feet (7.9 by 26.8 m) Entitled "Hollywood Jazz: 1945-1972", it presents "larger than life" images of a number of notable jazz musicians. restored his Hollywood Jazz Mural on the south wall of the Capitol Records building. In April 2011, Capitol Records and artist Richard Wyatt Jr. A black-and-white graphic of the building appeared on the albums of many Capitol recording artists, with the phrase, "From the Sound Capitol of the World". During 1992, the light blinked "Capitol 50," in honor of the label's fiftieth anniversary. It was switched on by Leila Morse, granddaughter of Samuel Morse. ) This was an idea of Capitol's then-president, Alan Livingston, who wanted to advertise Capitol's status as the first record label with a base on the west coast. The blinking light atop the tower spells out the word "Hollywood" in Morse code. The thirteenth floor of the tower is the "Executive Level" and is represented by an "E" in the building's two elevators. The 13-story conforms to the 150-foot (46 m) zoning height limit in place at the time of its construction. The rectangular ground floor is a separate structure, joined to the tower after completion. Wallichs conceded, choosing Naidorf's initial round design. Wallichs presented both designs to his lender, who felt the round design would attract attention, which would make it easier to lease. Upon first seeing the design, Capitol Records' president Glen Wallichs insisted on a rectangular building, so Naidorf provided Wallichs with both. This resemblance, however, was coincidental, as Welton Becket kept the client's identity secret.
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The wide curved awnings over windows on each story and the tall spike emerging from the top of the building resembles a stack of records on a turntable with the spindle pointing skyward. The building's design is on the graduate school drawings of Lou Naidorf who, as the primary architect, designed the first circular office building when he was 24 years old. The building is known as "The House That Nat Built" due to the vast numbers of records and amounts of merchandise Nat King Cole sold for the company. It has been described as the "world's first circular office building." The building is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument and sits in the Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District. Located just north of the Hollywood and Vine intersection, the Capitol Records Tower houses the consolidation of Capitol Records' West Coast operations and is home to the recording studios and echo chambers of Capitol Studios. Construction began soon after British music company EMI acquired Capitol Records in 1955, and was completed in April 1956. Designed by Louis Naidorf of Welton Becket Associates, it is one of the city's landmarks. The Capitol Records Building, also known as the Capitol Records Tower, is a 13-story tower building in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
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